Peter Balaam

Misery's Mathematics

Mourning, Compensation, and Reality in Antebellum American Literature

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book reveals the strain of a moment in American cultural history that led several remarkable writers -- Emerson, Warner, and Melville -- to render loss in innovative ways. These three key writers rejected Calvinist and sentimental models of bereavement, creating instead the compensations of a mature American literature.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 277g
• ISBN-13: 9781138981249
• ISBN-10: 1138981249
• Artikelnr.: 57041067

Autorenporträt

Peter Balaam teaches English and American Studies at Carleton College.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction: "Misery's Mathematics"
Chapter One: "The Laws of our Learning": Emerson's Grief and the Geological
Principles of Loss
Chapter Two: Playing with Water: Thrill and Theodicy in The Wide, Wide
World
Chapter Three: Representing Grief, Mourning Representation: Melville's
Piazza Tales
Afterword: Soldering the Abyss: The Possibilities of Compensation
Notes
Works Cited
Index